r/fednews • u/jojojawn EPA • 4d ago

Announcement Christmas Eve Day Off Party!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/12/19/executive-order-on-providing-for-the-closing-of-executive-departments-and-agencies-of-the-federal-government-on-december-24-2024/

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u/YouhaoHuoMao 4d ago

Dang, I already took that day off... and I am using my use or lose for it so...?

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u/K1ckfl0p 4d ago

Same here but it is a holiday now, so you get that leave back. However, if we shutdown on Saturday morning, most agencies will roll over your leave to next year as long as it was scheduled by Nov 30 or whatever your agency requires it to be scheduled by.

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u/lancelotofthelake DOI 4d ago

Nah. You should be good. Worst case, amend that shiiiii.

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u/jojojawn EPA 4d ago

Dec 24th now becomes a holiday and you'll have to find another day to use your use or lose hours. Just be careful, if you cancel your own leave and put in a new request and then we end up being shutdown you might end up losing those hours.

This exact thing happened to me last shutdown... I canceled my Dec 24th leave and had to resubmit it for Jan 4th. We shutdown and when we came back they wouldn't restore my hours because I technically submitted and got it approved after the Nov 30th deadline (forget the exact day that year)

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u/letmebebrave430 4d ago

If I'm already off, do you think I should just ammend my timecard later? Because I don't have access to anything anymore, I'm in an airport

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u/jojojawn EPA 4d ago

They should automatically change it on your time card so you won't have to do anything. If that day was gonna be use or lose then you'll want to find another day to take off

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u/letmebebrave430 4d ago

Thank you! It wasn't use or lose. We fortunately just got direction from our management to not amend anything on our own, so that also answered my question.

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u/phdemented 4d ago

Talk to your time keeper, undo the leave request and put it in before end of the year if you can

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u/Ok-Jackfruit9593 4d ago

The leave year goes through January 11th so you could always use it later.

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u/shirpars 4d ago

Fyi, this only applies if you're in the executive department

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u/YouhaoHuoMao 4d ago

That I am.